Rinzō Shiina Explained

Rinzō Shiina
Native Name:	椎名麟三
Native Name Lang:	Japanese
Birth Name:	Ōtsubo Noboru
Birth Date:	1 October 1911
Birth Place:	Hyōgo Prefecture
Occupation:	Novelist (Short story)
Language:	Japanese
Nationality:	Japanese
Education:	High school dropout
Genre:	Romance, short story
Subject:	Christian
Notableworks:	Utsukushii onna
Awards:	Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Award (1955)

Rinzō Shiina (椎名 麟三 Shiina Rinzō; born 大坪 昇 Noboru Ōtsuka; 1 October 1911 – 28 March 1973) was a Japanese writer, novelist, short story writer and playwright.^[1]

Shiina's best known works were written after 1950. His writing focused on the spiritual poverty of post-occupation Japan.^[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Rinzō Shiina, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 274 works in 433 publications in three languages and 1,530 library holdings.^[3]

• , 1948
• , 1952
• . 1954
• , 1955; translated from the Japanese as The Flowers Are Fallen, 1961, by Sydney Giffard
• , 1965
• The Go-Between and Other Stories by Rinzō Shiina, 1970; translated by Noah S. Brannen .
  • "Baishakunin" ("The Go-Between") also appears in

Notes and References

1. Olson, George L. (2007). Mummy Thief: A Memoir of My Life's Challenges, p. 77.
2. Rimmer, Thomas J. (2007). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Vol. 2, p. 326.
3. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities